GALLERY UPDATES: Just For Fun

Publisher Jack Woody (hat) and Josh Binder (plaid)
arrived from New Mexico for Luke Smalley's CLAMPART exhibition

Twin Palms publisher Jack Woody arrived from New Mexico with Josh Binder, for his posthumous exhibition and book launch of photographs by their late friend LUKE SMALLEY at Chelsea's CLAMPART Gallery. It was sooo crowded I wasn't able to take a snapshot of the gracious Brian Clamp. CLAMPART 521 West 25 Street NYC

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Radius Books publisher Darius Himes in front of
Photographs by Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb

RICO MARESCA GALLERY

Photographer Rebecca Norris Webb (left), and Darius Himes,
with Photographer Gay Block

Photographer Alex Webb (left) with guest

Radius Books publishers Darius Himes and David Chickey's book launch for Photographers Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb was a great success. Look for photographs of their beautifully designed Limited Edition of VIOLET ISLE: A PORTRAIT OF CUBA on Radius Books website next week. RICO MARESCA GALLERY 529 WEST 20TH ST NYC

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Check out the Opening party for Deborah Turbeville's exhibition Silent Film posted below

DEBORAH TURBEVILLE: Silent Film

Photograph (c) Deborah Turbeville /All Rights Reserved

Deborah Turbeville's exhibition Silent Film at Ralph Pucci

Photograph (c) Deborah Turbeville /All Rights Reserved

Opening party for Deborah Turbeville's exhibition Silent Film at Ralph Pucci

Guests: (left) Merek, Interior Designer Susan Forristal, Photographer Deborah Turbeville (center) Anglo Raj Antiques Sandra J. Long and friend (right) Marek & Associates Turbeville agent, Marek Milewicz and Sara Vass Public Relations exec, Richard Mauro (Click Images To Enlarge)

DEBORAH TURBEVILLE was born in Massachusetts and raised in New England. When she was twenty years old she moved to New York City to work with designer Claire McCardell. Having a fond interest in designer clothing Deborah became a fashion editor. It was not long after that she realized that her heart was in photography. She has been taking photos ever since. Turbeville divides her time between New York and Mexico and always spends a great deal of time in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Turbeville’s exhibition Silent Film at Ralph Pucci's 15,000-square-foot penthouse opened last night with a party. Half the photographs are set in Versailles, France, including the behind-the-scenes back rooms and storage spaces off-limits to the public. They’re taken from her “Unseen Versailles” series edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who helped Turbeville gain access to the royal palace. Other photographs were shot in Saint Petersburg, Russia and Venice.

Ralph Pucci 44 West 18 Street New York

Deborah Turbeville Website

PHOTOGRAPHY AUCTION: Paul Kopeikin

#3513, 2003 / Photograph (c) Todd Hido /All Rights Reserved

Kristie, 2007 / Photograph (c) Siri Kaur /All Rights Reserved

Embrace, 2006 / Photograph (c) Matthew Welch /All Rights Reserved

Downward, 2004
Photograph (c) Jill Greenberg /All Rights Reserved

I nominate Gallery owner Paul Kopeikin "Father of The Year". He's assembled an amazing group of AUCTION photographs to benefit his daughter's Charter School! Several Nick Brandt's, Jill Greenberg's, Mark Citret's, Tom Baril's, Chris Jordan, a scattering of Todd Hido, Kate Breaky, Hiroshi Watanabe and many more great images too numerous to list so look at the GALLERY.

View the Nov 13th Invite details: Kopeikin Gallery

SUZY ALLMAN: NYC Marathon

The Marathon Runners on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

Photograph (c) Suzy Allman /All Rights Reserved/NY Times 11.2.09

The NYC Marathon Runners, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, 10.1.2009

Photograph (c) Suzy Allman /All Rights Reserved

SUZY ALLMAN holds a degree in Environmental Science from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and English from Lemoyne College in Syracuse, NY. As a professional travel and sports photographer, her work appears regularly in The New York Times, as well as Sports Illustrated, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Conde Nast, American Express, Ralph Lauren...among others. Allman specializes in aerial photography.

SUZY ALLMAN PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSITE

NYC Marathon 2009 Results
Ed Norton and Massai Warriors Marathon Behind The Scenes

LUKE SMALLEY: CLAMPART Nov 5th

1st Anniversary, 2008

Photograph (c) Estate of Luke Smalley /All Rights Reserved

Visiting Day, 2008

Photograph (c) Estate of Luke Smalley /All Rights Reserved

from Sunday Drive / Twin Palms Publishers
Photograph (c) Estate of Luke Smalley /All Rights Reserved

Untitled (Arm Wrestle), 2008
Photograph (c) Estate of Luke Smalley /All Rights Reserved

SUNDAY DRIVE
Photographs by Luke Smalley
TWIN PALM PUBLISHERS

SUNDAY DRIVE, Jack Woody's posthumous book of photographs by the late LUKE SMALLEY, continues Smalley's journey for truth inside the lives of small town youth. "This poignant photo novella tells the story of consequence when innocence takes a wrong turn. As in his past volumes, humor pervades: the boys' sobering plight as inmates in the state prison juxtaposed at Smalley's bemusement of the girls' preoccupation of what to wear." Classically Smalley.

CLAMPART

EXHIBITION AND BOOK LAUNCH. NOV 5. 6-8 PM
521 West 25 Street NYC

WEBB + WEBB: Radius Book Launch Nov 5th

Havana (Rooster), 2008 / Radius Books
Photograph (c) Rebecca Norris Webb /All Rights Reserved

Santi Spiritus (Boys and Dusk), 1993 / Radius Books
Photograph (c) Alex Webb /All Rights Reserved

Havana (Colorful Wing), 2008 / Radius Books
Photograph (c) Rebecca Norris Webb /All Rights Reserved

VIOLET ISLE: A PORTRAIT OF CUBA
Photographs by Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb
With an Essay by Pico Iyer
RADIUS BOOKS

BOOK LAUNCH PARTY AND RECEPTION. NOV 5. 6-8 PM
GALLERY TALK AND BOOK SIGNING. NOV 7. 4-6 PM
RICO MARESCA GALLERY
529 WEST 20TH ST NYC

Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb
WEBSITE

DUMBO GALLERY WALK: The Tibet Center

Nagarjuna, Tibetan Applique Thangka, 18' tall x 9' wide
Photograph (c) Herman Velez /All Rights Reserved

HH The Dalai under Nagarjuna's Thangka

Photograph (c) Herman Velez /All Rights Reserved

(please click image to enlarge)

HH The Dalai Bestowing Blessings at Radio City Music Hall, NYC

Photograph (c) Herman Velez /All Rights Reserved

Nov 5th • DUMBO 1st Thursday Walk: Until 8:00 Pm

THE TIBET CENTER is the oldest Tibetan Buddhist Center in NYC. It's not a Gallery, but you are welcome to come and look around Thursday evening. On display is the 18 foot tall (rolled to 12 foot to mind the ceilings) Nagarjuna Applique Thangka that was commissioned for HH The Dalai Lama. Other Tibetan paintings of the Buddha, White and Green Tara's, among other traditional pieces, are also on display.

The Tibet Center has moved out of Dumbo since I first posted this piece and is now located at the University Settlement/Houston Street Center, 273 Bowery x Houston St, New York City.

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THE 18 foot tall NAGARJUNA Applique Thangka was commissioned for The Dalai Lama's three days of Teachings on The Diamond Cutter Sutra by the Buddha and Seventy Verses on Emptiness by Nagarjuna. To begin, a request was made to the Master Tibetan Applique Artist, Dorjee Wangdue, in Dharamsala, India.

T. G. Dorjee Wangdue was born in Lhasa, Tibet in 1962. At the age of 16, he joined Namgyal Tantric Monastery of H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama. It was his teacher, Ven. Thupten Jamyang (late), a Kalachakra ceremony and ritual master assisting H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama, who encouraged him to learn and improve his natural talent in making religious images of applique. He later opened the Tibetan Applique Arts Training Centre in Dharamsala, where over 150 young Tibetans have learned this unique Art so far.

After The Tibet Center's request was placed, Master Dorjee Wangdue had a Thangka Painter from HH's own Namgyal Monastery make a pencil sketch of the Buddhist images for the huge piece. HH The Dalai Lama made adjustments to the sketch asking that the figure of the Buddha be placed above the central figure of Nagarjuna. The Applique Artist then designed the placement of all of the individual pieces and gave this to a team of crafts men and women who worked on it for many months. It was hung above HH The Dalai Lama in Radio City Music Hall, NYC, in 2007 and now resides in DUMBO.

The Tibet Center Website / Herman Velez Photography Website

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VIDEO'S

Master Tibetan Applique Artist, Dorjee Wandue, demonstrating the process of creating Applicate Thangka's. In Tibetan, no English sub-titles: Video 1, Video 2, Video 3, Video 4, Video 5, Video 6
(Short on Patience? Just watch Video 3 )

DUMBO GALLERY WALK: Gallery List

Sara & Justin, 2009 / Randall Scott Gallery
Photograph (c) Nadine Rovner /All Rights Reserved
www.nadinerover.com

Dreamboats Collective at Umbrage Gallery
Photograph (c) Adam Golfer /All Rights Reserved
www.adamgolfer.com

DUMBO 1st THURSDAY GALLERY WALK
Thursday Nov 5th Participating Galleries:

A.I.R. GALLERY 111 Front St.
AMOS ENO GALLERY 11 Front St.
BOSE PACIA 163 Plymouth St.
BROOKLYN ART PROJECT 5 Front St.
BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL 111 Front St.
CAPTION GALLERY 55 Washington St.
CENTRAL BOOKING 111 Front St.
DUMBO ARTS CENTER 30 Washington St.
FARMANI GALLERY 111 Front St.
GIACOBETTI-PAUL GALLERY 111Front St.
HENRY GREGG GALLERY 111 Front St.
KLOMPCHING GALLERY 111 Front St.
KRIS GRAVES PROJECTS 111 Front St.
MAGASIN TOTALE 10 Jay St.
POWERHOUSE ARENA 37 Main St.
RANDALL SCOTT GALLERY 111 Front St.
SMACK MELLON 92 Plymouth St.
SPRING 126A Front St.
UMBRAGE GALLERY 111 Front St.
VII PHOTO 28 Jay St.
WATERMILL BROOKLYN GALLERY 111 Front St.

VIEW FROM DUMBO
DUMBO 411

DUMBO GALLERY WALK: Photo District

View of the Empire State Building from DUMBO

Photograph (c) Mary Virginia Swanson /All Rights Reserved

DUMBO is an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. This historic Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood, located just across the East River from Manhattan, is one of New York's leading Arts Districts, AKA the "new" NY Photo District.

DUMBO 1st Thursday Gallery Walk • November 5th • 5:30-8:30 PM. Begin at 111 Front Street's 14 Galleries • View Participating Galleries + Walking Map (click on red titles) • Subway Directions: A/C to High St/Brooklyn Bridge. Cadman Plz West Exit F to York St

Mary Virginia Swanson: Photography Marketing Consultant Website

ERIC FISCHL: An Interview

Fred, 1998. Oil On Linen. 72" x 68"
(Portrait of Fischl's friend novelist/art critic Frederick Tuten)
Painting (c) Eric Fischl /All Rights Reserved

Joan and John, 2002. Oil On Linen. 70" x 75"
(Portrait of writer's Joan Didion and the late John Dunne)
Painting (c) Eric Fischl /All Rights Reserved

Untitled (Brice In Pink Shirt), 2006. Oil On Linen. 50" x 60"
Painting (c) Eric Fischl /All Rights Reserved

ERIC FISCHL, born in New York City, grew up in the suburbs of Long Island and Phoenix, Arizona. He received a BFA from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972. His work has been the subject of numerous important exhibitions including: the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; and the Museum of Contemparary Art, Chicago. Fischl lives and works in New York City and Sag Harbor with artist April Gornik. Read his full bio here

An Interview With Eric Fischl by Donald Kuspit

Front Cover right: Photograph by Richard Avedon. Back Cover left: Painting "Portrait of the Artist As An Old Man" by Eric Fischl

The following is an excert from An Interview With Eric Fischl by Donald Kuspit, Elizabeth Avedon Editions / Vintage Contemporary Artists / Random House (Buy a vintage copy here):

DK: I see you want to live dangerously: you've critically introduced your contemporaries. Let's pursue your gambit. Within the context of the understanding you've set up, who are the artists you find interesting? Why do they make a difference to us?

EF: In the mid-seventies, when sincerity and/or meaning became important again, after pop art and minimalism and conceptual art, some artists found it either in direct expression of meaningfulness, or they found meaningfulness in the direct expression of meaninglessness, and that's how the lines were drawn. When I came to New York in the late seventies, the greatest risk was sincerity. The German artists–Keifer, Baselitz, Polke, Lupertz, Immendorff, Penck–became noteworthy because they were working with a historical event that was guaranteed to be meaningful. It was the worst thing that had happened, they were the descendants of its perpetrators, and they were trying to figure out who they were in relation to it. The whole struggle for meaning since the 1970's has been a struggle for identity. It's pervasive, but most of us can't identify what happened except in personal terms. By what happened, I mean what went wrong, what gave us this sense of collapse or disappointment. The Germans were hurt not just personally but culturally as well. It's very hard for us in America to complain or to feel that our complaint is justified, because, after all, what are we complaining about? That objects we surround ourselves with are disappointing? I mean, it's a joke, we're more embarrassed about having believed in the superficial qualities of America, and it's hard to see yourself in that light. But because the Germans were so devastated culturally, you can identify with their struggle for renewal. Baselitz made a formal decision to turn his images upside down. Before that he had been making traditional realist pictures, often genre and figure scenes. So he decided to turn history upside down. He distanced himself from history, almost as a kind of penitence, a kind of self-ostracism.

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Fischl's latest paintings are of the Corrida Goyesca held each September in the Andalusian town of Ronda. The toreros, or bullfighters, dress in 18th century attire as in the era of the Spanish painter Goya, who designed their distinctive costume. The bull fight has captivated artists from Goya to Hemingway and Picasso.

Corrida in Ronda / ERIC FISCHL / EXHIBITION
Mary Boone Gallery • Oct 21-Dec 2009 • 541 West 24 Street, NYC

CAMILLE SEAMAN: The Big Cloud

Tracks Through the Field, Kansas, USA, May 2008
Photograph (c) Camille Seaman /All Rights Reserved

Casing the Storm, Kansas, USA, May 2008
Photograph (c) Camille Seaman /All Rights Reserved

The Collapse III, South Dakota, USA, June 2008
Photograph (c) Camille Seaman /All Rights Reserved

The storms we were chasing were Supercells, capable of producing grapefruit sized hail, and spectacular tornadoes; they were 50 miles wide and reached as high as 65,000 ft. into the atmosphere. These clouds were so large that they had the capability of blocking all daylight, making it very dark and ominous standing under them.

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CAMILLE SEAMAN, from Eastern Long Island's Shinnecock Tribe, is an Award-winning photographer best known for her Polar Iceberg images. She studied photography with Jan Groover and master workshops with Steve McCurry, Sebastiao Salgado, and Paul Fusco. She was named by American Photo Magazine as one of the top 15 emerging photographers of 2007. Other awards include: Artist in Residence onboard M/V Orlova in Antarctica (2007); Critical Mass Top Monograph Book Award (2006); National Geographic Award (2006); Nikon.Net Editor's Choice Award (2006) and was honored with a solo exhibition, “The Last Iceberg” at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC in 2008.

The images in "The Big Coud" series were made in May and June of 2008 in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota. A total of 5,600 miles was driven in just under a ten-day period.

The Big Cloud Exhibition
The Soul Catcher Studio Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.

Camille Seaman Website

ANTHONY CROSSFIELD: Foreign Body

Halloween Art Gallery Visitor
Foreign Body Exhibition, KlompChing Gallery 10.30.09

ANTHONY CROSSFIELD: Foreign Body / "The fused, melted and hybrid bodies in Crossfield's uneasy photo-manipulations are very literally joined at the hips, yet appear eerily isolated and lonely in their dilapidated and tragic surroundings." L Magazine October 29 — December 19, 2009

KLOMPCHING GALLERY
111 Front St, Suite 206 Dumbo 212-796-2070
Opening Reception: Nov. 5th, 6pm—8:00pm

MICHAEL AVEDON: Self Portrait with Mask

Self Portrait
Photograph (c) Michael Avedon / All rights reserved

HALLOWEEN: Andrew Phelps

Photograph (c) Andrew Phelps/All rights reserved

ABOUT / PHOTOBLOG / WEBSITE

CHAMBER MUSIC: Tom Chambers Photograph Inspires Indie Rock Song Writers

Black Dog's Retreat, 2002. Photograph (c) Tom Chambers

TOM CHAMBERS photograph Black Dog's Retreat was chosen by musicians Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie and J. Robbins of Jawbox and Burning Airlines to inspire and create Mercury, a soaring song inspired by Chambers cataclysmic image. Video's documenting the songwriting process and performance of "Mercury" here. About Tom Chambers.
Tom Chambers WEBSITE

BENNO GRAZIANI: La Dolce Vita

Fiat's Gianni Agnelli and guest Heidi von Salvisberg, Beaulieu 1967
Photograph (c) Benno Graziani /All Rights Reserved

Jackie et les Paparazzi's, Port d'Amalfi 1962
Photograph (c) Benno Graziani /All Rights Reserved

Benno Graziani photographing Jackie Kennedy and Marella Agnelli, Amalfi, Italy 1962 Photograph(c)Benno Graziani /All Rights Reserved

Jackie Kennedy Nageant, Ravello, Italy August 1962
Photograph (c) Benno Graziani /All Rights Reserved

Jacqueline Kennedy and sister Princess Lee Radziwill, Ravello, Italy 1962
Photograph (c) Benno Graziani /All Rights Reserved

'Match was our little club, there were no editors meetings because we hardly spent time apart from each other – and it worked! Some editions sold more than two million copies...The world's press envied us and tried in vain to imitate us

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BENNO GRAZIANI, photojournalist and former editor of Paris Match, exhibits his iconic black and white images of the legendary rich and famous on the French-Italian Riviera of the 1950's-1970's. Graziani was friends with some of the biggest celebrities of his era. He was the inspiration for Fellini's La Dolce Vita.

Having met as journalist's while Jacqueline Kennedy, then Jacqueline Bouvier, was working for the Washington Times Herald in the 1950's, Graziani had the privilege of documenting the Kennedy lifestyle as seen in his book Private Collection (Editions Verlhac). His work has been exhibited in The Metropolitan Museum, New York, 2000; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 2001 and Galerie Photo12, Paris, 2007 and 2009.

NYC exhibition by appointment only through Nov 14. public_realations(at)olegcassini(dot)com galerie–photo12

Post thanks to Jean-Jacques Naudet, legendary editor,
author and champion of important image-makers